There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. — George Santayana Birth Copy Share Image
What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Philosophers are very severe towards other philosophers because they expect too much. — George Santayana Philosophers Copy Share Image
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Architecture Copy Share Image
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. — George Santayana Egotism Copy Share Image
The soul, too has her virginity and must bleed a little before bearing fruit. — George Santayana Bearing fruit Copy Share Image
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana Country Copy Share Image
Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it. — George Santayana Change Copy Share Image
Rejection is a form of self-assertion. You have only to look back upon yourself as a person who hates this or that… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy… — George Santayana Depth Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes. — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
Religion is the natural reaction of the imagination when confronted by the difficulties in a truculent world. — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
“The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panzas who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate. — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
To understand one's self is the classic form of consolation; to delude one's self is the romantic — George Santayana Psychology Copy Share Image
Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old… — George Santayana Adventure Copy Share Image
A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
O world, thou choosest not the better part! It is not wisdom to be only wise, And on the inward vision close… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying… — George Santayana Destiny Copy Share Image
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. — George Santayana Inspirational Copy Share Image
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. — George Santayana Foe Copy Share Image
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists. — George Santayana Barbarism Copy Share Image
Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs. — George Santayana Affair Copy Share Image
“Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.” — George Santayana Convention Copy Share Image
An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there. — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk. — George Santayana Communication Copy Share Image
It is one thing to lack a heart and another to possess eyes and a just imagination. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world. — George Santayana Beautiful Copy Share Image
